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rhinoceros bird1822

†(a) = rhinoceros hornbill n. (obsolete); (b) chiefly South African an oxpecker (genus Buphagus).

beefeater1836

Ornithology. A genus of African birds (Buphaga), called also Ox-peckers, allied to the Starling family, which live chiefly on parasitic larvæ…

oxpecker1837

Either of two African birds which habitually cling to the backs of cattle and other large mammals to feed on ticks and other parasites, the…

tick-bird1850

a bird which feeds on the ticks that infest large quadrupeds, as the African genus Buphaga (rhinoceros-bird) and the South American and West Indian…

buffalo-bird1857

an insessorial bird (Textor erythrorhynchus) which accompanies herds of buffaloes in South Africa.

ox-biter1885

(a) = oxpecker, n.; (b) U.S. a cowbird (genus Molothrus).

tick-eater1903

= tick-bird n.

cow-picker1915

= oxpecker, n.

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